Raising Elijah

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Nothing could be more important than the health of our children, and no one is better suited to examine the threats against it than Sandra Steingraber. Once called qa poet with a knife, q she blends precise science with lyrical memoir. In Living Downstream she spoke as a biologist and cancer survivor; in Having Faith she spoke as an ecologist and expectant mother, viewing her own body as a habitat. Now she speaks as the scientist mother of two young children, enjoying and celebrating their lives while searching for ways to protect them--and all children--from the toxic, climate-threatened world they inhabit Each chapter of this engaging and unique book focuses on one inevitable ingredient of childhood--everything from pizza to laundry to homework to the qBig Talkq--and explores the underlying social, political, and ecological forces behind it. Through these everyday moments, Steingraber demonstrates how closely the private, intimate world of parenting connects to the public world of policy-making and how the ongoing environmental crisis is, fundamentally, a crisis of family life.The hydrocarbon emissions in your yard will drop to zero. ... My style is to mow
the lawn a few rows at a time, about twenty to thirty minutes a day. ... my entire
yard is mowed, I start overaalthough experientially, there is no start or end point.
... muscle power to operate machinesacosting us time and money, taking us
away from our kids, and accomplishing no useful workawhy not look at the
carbon-free, anbsp;...

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Raising Elijah

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Sandra Steingraber

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Da Capo Press - 2011

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